Time for new leadership

Sep 23, 2009
By Arta Ankrava

RIGA - Nationalistic stirrings can be seen around Latvia as sentiment grows for a change in the structure of government, one in which presidential powers would be drastically increased.  When in 2007 Chairman of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party (LSDWP) Janis Dinevics spoke of the collection of signatures for the proposal of constitutional change, he declared that “a president elected by the people would have greater responsibility to his or her constituents,” reported news agen ...

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